Telenor

Huawei has signed a global master agreement with Telenor Group to supply mobile broadband modems. Under the agreement, Huawei will deliver 1.2 million mobile broadband modems in the coming year for Telenor’s 13 operating companies in Europe, CIS and Asia.

India’s home ministry is set to give security clearance to Norway’s Telenor to lift its stake in its Indian subsidiary, Unitech Wireless, to 74 percent, reports Telecompaper, citing India’s Economic Times.

Unitech Wireless, the Indian mobile joint-venture between India’s Unitech and Norway’s Telenor, has secured a INR5,000 crore (US$1.03 billion) loan from the State Bank of India (SBI) in a bid to fund its network rollout, reports Economic Times.

The Swedish Competition Authority (Konkurrensverket) has launched an investigation into whether the LTE spectrum agreement forged by Sweden’s five main mobile operators is anti-competitive. The investigation relates to a deal struck between TeliaSonera, Telenor, Tele2, Swefour and 3 Sweden in November last year to share Sweden’s 900Mhz bandwidth in a so-called “frequency pact.”